I am so excited that I finally have asparagus growing in my vegetable garden! I love the sweet flavor of the steamed young stalks, and it is so nutritious – but also so expensive at the grocery store. I also have a hard time finding fresh-looking stalks at the store. The tips are almost always [...]
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In the world of superfoods, mushrooms are often left out of the discussion. But shiitake mushrooms are worth a look for anyone who wants to get a superfood in their diet that doesn’t have the same old “green” taste and texture. Chinese herbalists have been prescribing this mushroom for various ailments for several millennia. Recent [...]
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In their quest of a healthy diet, more and more people are seriously considering those foods that have a high antioxidant value. The pomegranate is one. In fact, the most widely touted of the health benefits of pomegranates is that it has a powerful ability to eradicate those free radicals that so often, if not [...]
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This week, our search for a healthy diet brings us to the South Beach Diet. The South Beach Diet is a creation of an M.D. in—guess where—Miami Beach, Florida. Cardiologist Arthur Agastson came up with the diet as an alternative to low-fat diets, which his patients had difficulty staying on. Dr. Agastson’s goal was to [...]
Is Dr. Barry Sears’ Zone diet a truly healthy diet? The theory behind Barry Sears’ Zone Diet is that when you tightly control the balance of the macronutrients—protein, fat, and carbohydrates—your body produces the right kind of eicosanoids. Eicosanoids are the body’s superhormones, and when you stimulate the production of the “good” ones your blood-sugar [...]
Is there such a thing as healthy fat? Or is it a sinful food you can legally splurge on during the holidays, and must resolve to give up come New Year’s? The main problem with the fat in conventional Christmas treats is that it tends to be trans fats, that hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated vegetable [...]
Did Nathan Pritikin provide the world with a healthy diet when he came up with his “Pritikin Plan”? He was a believer in the dietary fat/cholesterol leading to heart disease. So, when he came out with his diet in the 1960′s, one of the main components was that fat provided no more – preferably less [...]
Anyone figuring out a healthy diet plan knows that water should be the number one “food” they consume every day. You probably know it. I know it. Yet, whenever the weather suddenly becomes cold (there is no gradual temperature change in north Texas; one day, it’s 85 degrees, the next, it’s 50 with a forecast low [...]
Should a good healthy diet include soy-based foods? Tofu and other soy-related products began to grow in popularity in the United States back in the 1960’s and 70’s. The hippie vegetarians, with their cries that eating animals was cruel and that animal fat caused heart attacks, began using soy products as a replacement for meat and [...]
One of the many debates in the realm of healthy eating is whether the benefits of goat’s milk are superior to those of cow milk. (I am speaking strictly about raw milk, which is the natural – and therefore healthy – form of the beverage.) (This post is participating in Kelly the Kitchen Kop’s Real [...]